Paco de Lucía, the first illustrated flamenco artist - Manuel Alonso Escacena

Technical data sheet

• EAN: 9788411318907
  
• ISBN: 9-78841-318907
  
• Publisher: Almuzara
• Publication date: 2023
• Binding: Soft cover with flaps
• Dimensions: 15x21
• Spanish
• Number of pages: 421

Synopsis

Paco de Lucía was not born a star. As a young man, he sometimes lived on tour, an adventurous life. He took advantage of a fight in a restaurant in Mexico to grab two ice creams with a friend and leave without paying for lunch. He set foot in many shabby dressing rooms with broken mirrors and a musty smell, but he remembered it as a time of youth and freedom. From then on, in the blink of an eye, his name on the marquee of an opera house in any city in the world was a guarantee of hanging up the "sold out" sign two months before the performance.

Alonso Escacena explores the guitarist's personality through hundreds of anecdotes, while analyzing both the human and technical skills that made his rise to the status of outstanding world figure possible.

"Paco is extremely attractive to women. He attracts people, he gets under their skin. That serious expression, those closed eyes, that air of mystery make him attractive to young people. He has a superlative intelligence. He has known fame, but it irritates him. He needs it, but it has robbed him of peace and solitude. He can play for hours. But he never says: today I played well! He enjoys the little things. He seeks the company of simple people, of Bartolo, a dog without a breed or pedigree. Of his Brazilian parrot that sings flamenco to him in canasteras." ( Casilda Varela, Paco de Lucía's first wife, in an interview in 1978).

"I think the sensitivity with which the nuances are reflected is magnificent, but magnificent. I think you have intuited Paco's features very well. Difficult in a man with so many nuances." (Casilda Varela, to the author).